Colorado News

The University of Colorado-Boulder has received a $42 million contract from NASA to develop an instrument that will orbit Earth to monitor changes in the sun's radiation and help evaluate climate change.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says U.S. winter wheat production is expected to be down 18 percent from last year, but plenty of spring rain in colorado could give the state one of its best harvests in years.

It seems like Colorado is having a bad luck streak with their healthcare workers this year -- most recently in the case of a 29 year old former hospice nurse with Hospice and Palliative Care of Northern Colorado who was charged with forging prescriptions for Vicodin to obtain over 4,000 tablets of the medication.

A stretch of Interstate 25 in northern Colorado is being repaved with federal stimulus dollars.

Wyoming transportation officials are waiting for Colorado to determine what kind of trains it intends to run on its planned high-speed rail lines before Wyoming can finish a feasibility study about the prospect of extending the rail service north to Cheyenne.

Gov. Bill Ritter and his energy office are teaming up with Clean Energy, a gas supplier, to apply for a $10 million federal grant to expand use of compressed natural gas for transportation fuel in Colorado.

A new airline for dogs and cats is coming to Colorado. Pet Airways will offer flights across the country starting Tuesday, including Rocky Mountain Airport in Broomfield.

A beer festival in Fort Collins is getting a flat reception from some business owners who want to move the Colorado Brewers' Festival.

The Colorado National Guard helped rescue a 64-year-old hiker injured in a long fall in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

A Canadian company hoping to open a uranium mine in northern Colorado has obtained options for up to 3,585 more acres, plus access to minerals it owns under the land.

Colorado lawmakers are trying to untangle the rules that dictate how the state collects and spends money, warning that the budget "is brittle and it is breaking." Senate President Brandon Shaffer, a Longmont Democrat, gave that assessment Wednesday as the 16-member Fiscal Stability Commission opened two days of hearings.

A Colorado nurse charged with using a terminally ill patient's name to get pain pills is now accused of doing the same with other patients.

Colorado officials are launching a new public-private effort aimed at encouraging state residents to begin planning for their long-term care needs and offering a new insurance program.

A panel created by Congress to oversee the bank bailout is meeting in Colorado's agricultural heartland to hear from farmers and others who are struggling to get credit amid the economic downturn.

Some lucky Grand Valley resident had a blast over the holiday weekend, and it had nothing to do with fireworks.

Colorado plans to furlough state workers on the same days, rather than staggering their unpaid time off throughout the year, leading to the closure of most government offices on those days.

A Denver hospital said Monday it has asked every patient who had surgery there over a six-month period to come in for a blood test amid allegations that a former technician exposed up to 6,000 people to hepatitis C as she fed her painkiller addiction.

Continental, United and eight other airlines say the Justice Department's opposition to their bid for broad antitrust immunity was based on shortsighted analysis that ignored conditions in the airline industry.

Denver's Rose Medical Center says it has asked every patient who had surgery there over a six-month period to come in for a blood test.

The state patrol says a two-car, head-on crash has killed four people in southeastern Colorado.